To Save The Planet Don T Plant Trees Analysis

The argument of global warming is a debatable and polarizing subject which divides the people of the world into two camps: those who believe it and those who do not. It’s the similar situation for the idea of planting trees to save the planet. There was a controversial article “To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees” by Nadine Unger which is published in The New York Times , she claimed that it’s bad for our planet to plant more trees, since the trees would absorb more sun’s energy and raise the planet’s surface which will cause more global warming and emit reactive volatile gases which are bad for human. What’s more, it’s not effective to plant trees to control the climate, thus we can’t save our planet by planting more trees. Actually, the

As the article “An Embarrassment For Both Yale University And the New York Times” stated, “increased concentration of carbon absorbed by the oceans (the Earth’s largest carbon sink), making it acidic and hostile to life”(Kent). The increased amount of carbon dioxide can bring troubles to life, as well as the global warming. In the same article, it also states that scientists from Stanford found that California drought are far more likely to occur in today’s warming world than in one without human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases. We can’t eliminate carbon-emission, but we can choose to plant trees to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the

Unger’s statements are correct. “When you work on one piece of a huge puzzle with thousands of people and it starts to look like your corner could impact the whole picture, calling attention to it is perfectly reasonable. But to jump from working on that corner to the conclusion that the whole puzzle shows “blue” instead of “red” is just plain wrong” (Dr. Unger’s Four Scientific Fouls). This author blamed that Nadine Unger gave wrong analysis and tried to get attention. In this article, it has also stated the four scientific fouls of Nadine Unger, There isn’t results of studies that support Dr. Unger’s agreement and Dr. Unger didn't show any data in the article. Additionally, Dr. Unger has ignored at least two other important effects: the cooling of the evaporation effect from healthy forests, and the warming of the black carbon effect when forest clearing fires release particulate matter into the atmosphere. Another point that Nadine Unger has made is it’s not worthy to plant trees to control the climate, but it’s the cheapest tool that we can use to control